Word: vann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adding fuel to the fire reverse discrimination, the Administration threatens to reopen the painful civil rights battles of the 1960s and 1970s. Former Birmingham mayor David Vann told The New York Times that most of the city's population--Black and white--had accepted the preferential hiring plan as fair until the Justice Department reversed its position, saying "what was right is now wrong...
Sara Badger Vann Würzburg, West Germany...
...fifth term in the assembly, Vann's zeal is burning bright as he works on his most ambitious political venture yet. Like other black leaders, he is channeling black energy away from protest into a new power at the polls. "Politics is a game of numbers," he says. "And on numbers alone, blacks can win in many cases...
...Vann hopes to double the black registration in Brooklyn to 400,000 by 1985 and help some candidate grab city hall away from Ed Koch, who Vann feels is indifferent to black concerns. The soft-spoken Vann spends several nights a week going door-to-door canvassing unregistered voters. "My approach is from the grass roots," he says. "If you don't have power there, you don't have it anywhere...
...imposing figure at 6 ft. 2 in. and 180 Ibs., Vann is a former high school basketball star, Marine sergeant and teacher in the Brooklyn public schools. He has become a power in the state assembly, heading the influential black and Puerto Rican caucus. A lifetime in Brooklyn has taught Vann the value of step-by-step organization. He is in no rush. The numbers, he says, are on his side...